Hi, just looking for some advice about my 4mo dd. She has always been a reasonably good night time sleeper but terrible day time napper. I would have to feed her to sleep every night and nap, except in the day she would usually wake bright as a button every 20- 40 mins. She also didnt really seem tired although her mood did start to decline as time wore on. I knew she was overtired but couldnt really do anything to make her stay asleep.
Fast forward to this weekend, she is 17 weeks. We were away for the weekend and i was getting ready to put her to sleep at around 8. Normally she would go down at 9 or 10. She was very fussy and wouldnt feed to sleep although she was clearly tired. My husband put her down awake in the sleepyhead and turned the dream sheep on and she moaned on and off for 5 minutes (timed and not crying, just moaning) and fell asleep. Woke 40 minutes later and moaned for 2 minutes then fell back to sleep until 3.30 for a feed then straight through till 8.
Ever since then i have been following a nap schedule that i found and just putting her down in the crib with the dream sheep playing and he has been taking 4 1.5-2 hr naps. This is so much more than she was having and she still seems tired! Is this normal? It seems like a lot of sleep for a 4mo? Most schedules say put the baby down 1.5 hours after waking but she cant make it that long without yawning rubbing eyes etc, something she never did when she was only sleeping 20 min at a time. I just had to put her down at 6 as she couldnt stay awake.
Thanks for reading if you got this far!